Wedding In the Woods

we need a fiddler and a harpist her groom insisted
She did not care about a big wedding, she wanted the woods
Her groom and his mother arranged everything except her dress
It was an evening wedding; the forest looked super romantic lit up.

at first the bride had resented his mother’s involvement in details
she had lost her own mother to cancer a month prior
groom's mother decorated woods with candles and lanterns.
treating her as lavishly as she would have treated her own daughter.

New bride was not marrying a man, she was marrying a family.
best day of the rest of her life; she felt her mother's love in his mother.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Bauer Avatar
February 12, 2023 at 11:36 AM
very touching, caren!
Krutsinger Avatar
February 13, 2023 at 11:12 AM
Thank you Ilene
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